Stefanie Butland
Team Member at Openscapes
British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolStefanie Butland is a biologist-bioinformatician and community builder with 11+ years connecting life sciences, medicine and computational research to enable open, reproducible science. As a longtime organizer and mentor—co‑founder of VanBUG, former Community Manager at rOpenSci, AAAS Community Engagement Fellow, and current Openscapes team member—she specializes in community building, data literacy, and collaborative research workflows. She brings hands-on experience teaching bioinformatics and coordinating large initiatives at UBC and in personalized medicine, alongside domain research in Huntington disease, sequence-function relationships and enzyme evolution. Known for translating technical tools (notably R-based open science practices) into accessible, people-centered programs, she excels at turning complex computational practices into sustainable community habits. Based in British Columbia, she blends academic rigor with practical project management to help research teams do kinder, better science for future us.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Biology, M.Sc., Biology at York University
Github Skills (156)
origami10
ecology10
archiving10
perl10
data-management10
dm10
quantile10
opcodes10
bookdown10
cdr10
mod-manager10
r10
servicenow10
quarto10
hpc-applications10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Openscapes/website-new
May 2023 - Apr 2025
Openscapes.org website, made with Quarto and GitHub, published with Netlify
Contributions:22 reviews, 155 PRs, 232 pushes in 1 year 10 months
ropensci/unconf18
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:30 commits, 13 PRs, 18 pushes in 3 months
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